My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was the question: “Words Elon Musk uses at home”

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love it. But no, it was just an anagram game.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No that’s Kaffir

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  C. An albino

  D. My libido

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    HEYYYY MACARENA

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, yeah

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    2. A coffee
    3. A person or animal lacking pigmentation
    4. A parasite
    5. My sex drive

    Makes sense. As much as aqua seafoam shame does anyway.

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Watched that company. They make cheap ad filled copycat games. They can’t be bothered to spend one day on filtering the words from the free dictionary that they used. Same for the support email, they are too busy counting the ad money, there’s nobody reading them

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you’re thinking of a different company. This game lets you pay a single fee (I think it was $10 but it was literally years ago) and you get to play ad-free. They still annoy you about in-game purchases of “coins” but you can just X out of those.

    And to their credit, they got back to me within a few hours and said they would remove the word.

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ah, good to know

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• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They generally just use some free dictionary and don’t censor because that would take any amount of effort.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The funny thing is they do censor. Also, the levels have a set word list that someone came up with beforehand.

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    • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe the censor is recycled garbage too then. I know my word game’s dictionary is absolute trash.

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• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, it’s a word isn’t it?

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The N-word is a word too. Should it be in a list of words you are supposed to figure out to pass a level in a word game?

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m taking a turn here, off the original topic a little, but not a true subject change or tangent.

      There’s a ton of history behind all the terminology around terms like this. And they’re all inherently racist. They aren’t, however slurs (currently, one could debate the past) in the few places they are used. They’re too archaic to be slurs in English, they just aren’t used.

      Griffe, in specific was more of a French colonies thing, with other terms being used elsewhere.

      Now, the point of all this is to get back to why the term is racist in the first place.

      All the terms, mulatto, quateron (or quadroon), octoroon, metis, mamelouk, whatever; they are all about how much black is in the person, how much African heritage they have. Kinda obvious, but it’s never about how much white they have. The French colonies has specific terminology for someone that’s 1/64 black. Think about that. Out of all their ancestors, one is black, and that makes them black, with some white blood, separate from people that looked exactly the same.

      That whole “one drop” mentality is why they’re all racist, horrible terminology, even though they aren’t used as insults in English. They weren’t really used as insults back in the slave era either, just as yet another way to keep the boot on necks. The terms were used among free people of color too, which shows just how effective that boot of language really was.

      Now, the terminology varied a lot because it came from multiple languages. Spanish, French, Portuguese and English. Where you were determined what terms were in use, originally, but as colonies shifted hands, slavers intermingled,and borders moved, things got mixed around some. Here in the American southeast, you see even more mingling of the terms, with the dominant ones shifting over time in various locations.

      But, and this is actually relevant, the U.S. isn’t the only place this kind of thinking existed, and some of the terms are slurs in other places and languages.

      Griffe isn’t a slur anywhere I’m aware of, but “sambo” is, and it was another word for the same 3/4 African ancestry. Afaik, it isn’t a common slur, big there are places in South and Central America where it’s used as one.

      However, there are also places in South and Central America where mulatto, or mulatta are used with pride.

      Now, why am I writing this? It’s not just a historical curiosity, some vestigial words lingering in dictionaries. There was an entire set of jargon used as a tool of dominance and oppression. The thinking behind it still lingers everywhere that European imperialism existed (so, essentially everywhere across the world). Australia even had the same or similar terms for people with aboriginal ancestry.

      The stain of slavery, specifically the African slave trade, is embedded across the world. We forget sometimes, because the terminology of oppression changed, that we still think that way. It takes effort for some of us to first realize that we default to thinking of anyone with mixed African heritage as black first, as the black being mixed into the other “race”. And eliminating that way of thinking is even more work.

      But it’s work we need to do. As individuals, as nations, as a species, we need to understand that the systemic racism isn’t just about laws and official biases. It’s about the lingering, pernicious taint in how people think about race as a whole.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Takes a bold man to play that word. Would be funny seeing people sweat to play it.

      There’s letters n i g g r on the table

      *looks at the letter on his hand*

      E

      “uhh, mmmm, I… I got nothing”

      “My turn! I’ll play E. NIGG…!”

      “BOBBY NO!”

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your Wordle puzzle of the day, presented by Truth Social.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, I know nobody agrees with me, but I think you should just use that word. I can’t think of any “natursl” way it could pop up in conversation, unless maybe if it’s some hiphop musical context.

      If you’re trying to avoid this word like the plague, you’re just giving it more power for the racists who do use that word. If it’s just an archaic word with a weird meaning, like the word “griffe” it looses all power. The racists will probably still keep using it, but it will have as much power as “griffe” has.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Get ready for more of this as companies start leaning more heavily on trash AI.

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• tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All I can think of is

  “A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido”

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  • Thrashy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s at least more cultured than my brain shouting “MULATTO BUTTS! (Mulatto butts!)” at me

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    • FloatingAlong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Black-ass mama . . . white-ass daddy . . .

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  • vaxhax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, whatever, nevermind.

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• Album@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mulatto butts!

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Love words?

    You must — there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one that’s only in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.

    Very cool Merriam-Webster

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    • DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fucking dictionary is a subscription now?

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your new ringtone

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• hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay but what does mulatto mean?

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone with mixed African and European ancestry.

    Etymologically it’s rather nasty: the word was coined in either Spanish or Portuguese as “mulato”, as a reference to mules (“mula” - horse x donkey hybrid).

    In Portuguese it seems to me that this association faded away. However, I’m going to take a guess and say that the word is probably a slur in English, so not something that you want to use for its meaning.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m a native pt speaker and I had never thought of the word as slur. I remember it being commonly said on TV, music, and written on newspapers.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s archaic enough that it’s probably not a slur, or at least not a particularly bad one. Archer got away with using this as his ringtone.

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    • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve only encountered the use of mulatto once in the wild. My girlfriend my freshman year at college had an adopted brother who was biracial. She used the word mulatto to describe him, but at the time everything she said about him seemed very loving.

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  • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m guessing 50/50 mixed race based on context.

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Specifically half African-descended and half European (white).

      As compared to Mestizo - being half white and half native American (incl. South American)

      They went to stuff like Octaroon and Quadroon, having lower percentages of African ancestry.

      It’s all super racist obviously.

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

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• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t that just “giraffe” with a regional accent?

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How does the game work? Did you have to give this answer, or is it like boggle where you have to construct whatever words from a set of letters?

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe it just shows a person and you have to spell there race

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It has a specific list of words in each level it accepts as answers and you have to get the whole list to go to the next level. Any other words are just bonuses. This was also the longest word in the level.

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So like, it wasn’t just hiding in the game’s dictionary, but someone or some pre-coded algorithm selected it to feature?

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• Binette@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought it was French holy hell

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  • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is also French, but it means claw

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    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s also German but it means grips

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  • riccardo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Mulatto” is also an Italian word, it means the same thing. As someone already said up in the thread, nobody uses it as a slur, but I didn’t know about its etymology. I still won’t judge anyone that uses it, but I can understand how someone might not feel ok with being addressed with that word

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL 🙃

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • adam_y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sorry, “lenchings” is not a word in this puzzle, or the dictionary. Watch this ad to gain another credit and gave another guess.

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